When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

I decline to accept the end of man.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.